by mesaas | Feb 13, 2024 |
For more information, click here: https://events.columbia.edu/go/chahinian Stateless focuses on two key moments and places of Western Armenian literary history, post-WWI Paris and post-WW II Beirut, to examine how a stateless language sustained itself in a diasporic...
by mesaas | Feb 13, 2024 |
For more information, click here: https://events.columbia.edu/go/holmes Syrian Kurds and their Arab and Christian allies have embarked on one of the most radical experiments in self-governance of our time. In defiance of the Assad regime, the Islamic State, and...
by mesaas | Feb 9, 2024 |
For more information click here: https://events.columbia.edu/go/suciyan This lecture will reassess the pivotal Ottoman era of Tanzimat, which has a reputation in the historiography as a period of reform and equality. It does this not just through use of the Ottoman...
by mesaas | Feb 8, 2024 |
Upon the death of her father, a Jewish man originally from Oran, Algeria, who was naturalized as a French and then Israeli citizen, Ariella Azoulay discovers in a document that her grandmother’s name was Aïcha. In this book she interweaves two genres– autobiography...
by mesaas | Feb 2, 2024 |
The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference to be held on April 18-19 2024. This conference is a space for graduate students to present their original...
